Saturday, September 18, 2010

Tokyo Photo - The List

I have been asked by the organizers of Tokyo Photo to engage in a discussion with the famous editor and art director Masanobu Sugatsuke on the subject "How to survive as a photographer on 2010s".

As part of this, I made up a list of 10 different photographers whose careers I felt offered some guidance. Each are relatively new (or at least particularly modern and original) to the photo scene and each have developed incredibly successful careers. So for easy reference, I wanted to post a list on the blog so people could easily reference the names.

6 comments:

I enjoyed the talk today at Tokyo Photo 2010. Thank you.You emphasized 'modern' several times. Are you using that word 'modern' as similar meaning with 'something new'? If different, could you please explain a little bit more, the meaning of 'modern' in your talk? :-)

@Won - I thought the same thing when I read the last post. I think James means "contemporary" and not modern.

@James - Did you mention the odd fact that Ryan McGinley's was the last career to be launched by a museum (in 2003), rather than museums following the galleries for show ideas? I'm constantly surprised that no one points this out.

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